Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-02

JoHN CAMPBELL, NJ. P, of Digby, Nova
Scotia, was found insensible in his berth
on sleeping-car on its arrivalat Ottawa,
Ont, from Toronto on the Goth, and died
soon after. The cause was heart disease.
THE first train on the Canadian Pacific
railroad reached the Vancouver ocean
terminus on the oath. Hitherto trains
stopped at New Westminster. There was
a great celebration over the com letion of
the line
A. F. POWELL was arres ted at Atchison,
kas., on the 9th, on charge Of forgery
committed at Omaha.
A CLASH occurred between Belgian SOL
diers and mine rioters on the 27th, ana
worse collisions are feared
THREE human lives are reported to have
been lost in the New York Belt Line car
| stables Ire.
TENANTS at Bodyke, County Clare, Ire
| land, are resisting EVICTION, and bloodshed
| is expected TO result.
WASHINGTON estimates of the surplus
revenue for the current fiscal year, now
| nearly completed, place it at about SlUO,-
| 90 1000.
TIE Canadian Parliament has virtually
! co frmed the monopoly in Manitoba OF
| the Canadian Pacific railway.
| IN the National Presbyterian Assembly
| on the 9th, committee was ordered ap-
pointed to confer with a similar commit
1 tee from the st. Louis assent bly,, to devise
| means of closer relationship.
| MEXICO is reported as having arranged
big financial deal with English capital
| lists, including the management OF the
| mints.
| MANCHESTER spinners have agreed tc
run their mills on half time in order tc
r ak the cotton corner at Liverpool
| at
predicted.
| joan GREENwELL was sentenced by
Judge Moore in the Brooklyn Court of
| Sessions on the eth to be hanged on
/ Friday, July Is next, for the murder of
| LYMAN S. Weeks.
| PARNELL's friends are defending him
against the charges of rack-renting,
claiming his practices are the opposite to
those charged by his enemies.
A PASSENGER train on the Pennsylvania
railroad jumped the track at Horse Shoe
bend IN the Allegheny mountains on the
night of the 18th, and three cars went
| over an embankment. Four persons were
| killed and a number injured.
TIE British War Office in London has
| forbidden the allowance of reporters and
foreigners generally to visit Canadian
cltadels and other military strongholds.
| THE United States revenue cutter Oliver
| Walcott reports having found the ship st.
Stephens at Cape Cook, but the most
diIigent search failed to reveal trace OF
he crew of thirty men.
| REV. ETHELBERr TALBOT was conse-
Grated Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho. at
Christ church, st. Louis, on the 27th.
| Twelve bishops of the Episcopal church
| We're present and officiated in the cere.
| monies, which were most beautiful,
solemn and impressive.
The Naval Advisory Board report to the
Secretary of the Navy that the new
cruiser Atlanta has developed to within
four per cent of the contract horse
! power; that the vessel is strong and well
| built, and capable of showing increased
power with some minor changes.
THE United States Supreme Court has
adjourned for the term.
THE business of the Government for
| May indicates a large reduction of the
| public debt. Receipts to the 9th Were
S31, 255,O21; expenditures, so, SAG. S33; sur
plus for the month, so, 73S, 1SS. The ex.
peniitures include about $40, 10000 paid
| on account of pensions.
IT is estimated that the new high-license
| law in Pennsylvania will give Philadel-
phia a liquor revenue of 81, O00, 600 and the
State liquor revenue of $l.3)0, 001.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was created
| al
of the trotting stallion, J. A. South. 1t is
reported the animal died from the effects
OF poison given him to defeat him in the
2:30 race, for which he was entered. He
was owned by Nat Bruen of Burlington
| Ia, and was valued at 500
HENRY STEWART, a Sing Sing IN. "
| coavIct, made his escape from the prison
on the % h, and no trace of him has beer
found. He was employed in a laundry OF
Troy shirts. When box was packed for
sh pment to that city he secreted hims al
in u case and was carried out and loaded
into the car. He cut his way out with {
small saw and chisel, leaving his prison
Clothes behind on the car floor
TIE jury in the celebrated Nelson will
case at Minneapolis, MIMI, involving
100000, brought in a verdict on the 9Th
sustaining the last will, giving the whole
property to the wife. Colonel A. ID. Mel
son, of MAJ ysville, KY, had made severa
wills, dividing the property equally be
tween his wife and only sister. Ten hour!
before his death, in December, 1887, il
Georgia, he made a new will, giving all t.
his wife. The sister contested the will.